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I think I’ll try to get out to this exhibit – Body Worlds & The Brain – while it’s in the city. I note our local loudmouth Catholic bishop is bitching about it.

Bishop Frederick Henry, who leads the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary, questions the display’s morality in an article posted on the diocese’s website.

Henry acknowledges the benefit of donating one’s body for medical research but points out that the plasticized bodies are displayed in poses of recreation, such as throwing a baseball, and of “ghoulishness,” with one’s innards exposed and skin draped over an arm.

“We have crossed the line from education into the realm of entertainment, questionable art and commercial showcases,” he wrote.

“The church’s concern for human dignity extends to the body even after the soul is no longer present. The bodies of the dead deserve respect and charity, preserving the God-given dignity of the human person.”

There was protest against that show here as well, in SF… actually there are a couple of promoters who have put together that human body travelling show (I mean, more than one travelling show, different auspices).

HERE, the moan was from Chinatown… ti came otu that the promoter’s show that came here, had contracted, bought whatever the word is, bodies in China….

gah.

The promoter won the game for a while here, til the bodies began to leak. It actually was pretty funny… a reddish clearish ooze. They swore up and down it was not blood… and by now I forget the whole story, but it was a little too distasteful.

I saw the show (or one of the shows – I forget the name) when it came to Minnesota several years ago. I have nothing against displaying cadavers or pieces thereof for educational purposes, but it was all very creepy. I had the feeling that the guy who created it was indulging his own sick fetish. But hey, it’s art.

Let’s just imagine that this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had happened five years ago. We would have had Democratic lawmakers screaming from the rafters in the Capitol. But in 2010, it’s not happening, because they are boxed in by their own President’s agenda.

When Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were in office, Democrats weren’t out of step with the White House on energy policy when it came to offshore oil and gas drilling. But now, calling for a moratorium on new drilling isn’t what the White House wants.….snip….

Bill Nelson is bleating, but it is an election year for him… and I read earlier today that they can smell the oil spill in Tampa.

So cute… I am sure He shed a tear… still had one left after the funeral.

Of course just yesterday, Janet Nap sent one message while the WH (LeBolt was used I htink) sent another. Janet N: everything on the table (so unoriginal!) and WH said, still going at it! watch us! (words t that effect)

Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:

White House Adviser Tells ABC News: No New Offshore Drilling Until Complete Review of Spill

‘No additional [offshore] drilling has been authorized, and none will until we find out what happened and whether there was something unique and preventable here. … No domestic drilling in new areas is going to go forward until there is an adequate review of what’s happened here and of what is being proposed elsewhere.’

DAVID AXELROD, with George Stephanopoulos at the Newseum for “Good Morning America,” on questions about the administration response to the oil spill:

“This is always the case in Washington, that whenever something happens, the political speculation sets in. But the truth of the matter is that we had the Coast Guard on the scene almost immediately after this accident, the deputy secretary of the Interior was on the ground the next day, and we’ve been coordinating closely with the local authorities and with the responsible party, BP, down there to deal with this from the very beginning. I’m not concerned about THAT. What I’m concerned about is that we do every single thing we can to remediate this problem, to stop the flow — and that’s what’s going on.”

The morning AFTER the oil makes landfall in SE LA… they all get so quick and busy and chatty. Yeah right.

More from Mike Allen. Persoanlly I hope the Wh had to change their underwear for a dry sets…

USA Today p. 1

WEST WING WORRY:

A White House never wants to see the words ‘Valdez’ or ‘Katrina,’ let alone both in the same AP lead story:

‘The oil slick could become the nation’s worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez … The leak from the ocean floor proved to be far bigger than initially reported, contributing to a growing sense among some in Louisiana that the government failed them again, just as it did during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. President Barack Obama dispatched Cabinet officials to deal with the crisis.’ So the White House is not only responding ferociously, it’s also communicating that aggressiveness: snippy

Directly contradicts all of the Obama apologists who said the he only opened up “exploration”.

And this:

The decision to open up new areas of the American coastline to oil and gas development is part of a calculated political move by the Obama Administration to win Republican support for proposed climate change legislation.

The decision has upset environmental groups, but was welcomed yesterday by other oil companies.

Lamar McKay, the chairman of BP America, said that he was “encouraged” by the decision. “It’s a constructive step. We believe the industry has a strong track record of performance in the Gulf of Mexico and are confident that development can be done elsewhere in the same safe and environmentally sensitive manner while creating needed jobs.”

Meacham? I am pretty sure you will know him when you see him… ugh is all I can say. Religio lickspittle from Newsweek, shares the “On Religion” column with Sally Quinn at the Wapo online division… a fuckign simpering idiot.

He is ont eh record that is it is “just right” that Billy Graham should be perceived as God… who in Mecham’s words is “white and Southern”.

He is someone’s weak brained son that got palmed off on the decrepit US media. Becuase it is already a holding pen for nut cases and sell outs. They barely noticed.

I don’t know about other PBS local channels but ours has been brain dead for near to 40 years. And by now it only exists to inveigle a lot of rather limited do gooder dumb as rocks judeo xtian frumps to leave them money in their wills. They have an annuity scam worked out, people fall for it………..

ugh ours does SIX WEEK long interrruptions, regular progromming 100% off…… they run 40 – 60 % of self help scams, or exercise, mind calming, all but alcohol based 19th c love potions medicines… you donate and they send you the [full] dvd and the books. That sick hump Dwyer a quasi shrink is a big one here.

They also do a lot of music shows geared for the mindless boomer era people. Show 40 – 60% of some anthology, you donate 120 – 360 dollars and get the full dvd… etc.

As I noted in an update, numerous people, in comments and via email, objected that I had misinterpreted Obama’s remarks, that he was merely noting the hypocrisy of the Right but not himself criticizing those courts. As it turns out, The New York Times’ Charlie Savage and Sheryl Gay Stolberg understood his remarks exactly as I did, as did the experts on both sides of the spectrum they interviewed, and the White House itself seemed to confirm that this is exactly what Obama intended to convey: […]

Stunning.

The only thing to hope for is collapse in office. Luckily Ive decided I’d rather live under the full bore ogres than their even worse manservant.

… and this in one of his several updates… It is interesting as Lucy Dalgliesh is pretty much weak and runny jello… a strangely strong statement from her:

“The message they are sending to everyone is, ‘You leak to the media, we will get you,’ ” said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. In the wake of the Bush administration’s aggressive stance toward the press, she said, “as far as I can tell there is absolutely no difference, and the Obama administration seems to be paying more attention to it. This is going to get nasty.”

UPDATE II: For all you libertarians appearing in the comment section to defend Obama’s comments because you don’t like Roe and Brown v. The Bd. of Education: I seriously doubt that those are the decisions he had in mind when criticizing “judicial activism.” Obama has long self-identified as pro-choice and a defender of Roe, and I would be quite astonished if he had Brown and its progeny in mind when criticizing the Court. Obama’s failure and subsequent refusal to specify the decisions he thinks are illegitimate make it impossible to know for certain, but it’s unlikely in the extreme that he intended to question the validity of reproductive right and desegregation rulings.

saw, that and did the same ugh, you didn’t state that, moment, ….nonetheless, I have never posted under my full name, much less, start a website, like you have courageously done, Marisa ………. (and I perfectly understand why you don’t use your full name)

well I don’t use my real name… I think most people get outed as they want to meet or hook up with people… and I am nto interested in that… OR they have some small or large connection ot the Democratic party… volunteer or whatever… and I have not had any connection with the local party, ever, but to vote. No clubs no meet and greets, etc., none of that.

I did call the Pelosi office for help, when I applied for Soc Sec Disability and once before that…, but that was years ago and not connected to anything online.

yeah, and well, don’t ya know, not so long ago, I contacted a US Cali House member’s office for assistance and was told I needed to fill out a form first, which amounted in my mind to a waiver for them to hideously use me for their Political Platform, come time for stumping, no care for the fact, I’d likely become unemployable for my outing, and basically let the intern I was dealing with know, Fuck All Ya’ll and the Dragon’s Ya’ll rode in on.

About that House member, I recently was amused, though not shocked, to find, first hand, that she is a favorite lawmaker, for those Republican CEOS and VPS who run the finance departments of the multinationals, to see to it to pay as little taxes, if any, as they can.

well I had to sign a release for the aide in the Pelosi office to be able to access my Soc Sec file… he faxed it to me, I signed and faxed and mailed…

The earlier call was for information, in 93.

I think it would depend on what sort of help I was seeking. If they need to intervene in your life, I can understand a form, of some sort. But if it is merely to be directed to services, I don’t see a form needed for that…

so very tired of feeling required to sniff out enemies…when so many of us really do have good intent, but due to circumstances, totally beyond our control, are not always able to realize other’s ghastly, every day realities.

Glenn? Welll he has to retain faint credibility for when he regretfully tells people to vote for the born again slacker go along fuck up from Chicago.

he’ll present the dregs as enough. They always do.

I have to say the limp game of trying to point to Palin about oil is one of the sickest weakest feints the Dem party operatives have ever tried. Ob and his white folks are up to their nostrils in thsi one.

Ben Raines, an award-winning environment reporter in Alabama, unearthed a two-day-old federal memo today proposing that the flow of oil from the wrecked exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico could vastly increase. Quoting the memo, Raines wrote:

“The following is not public,” reads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Emergency Response document dated April 28. “Two additional release points were found today in the tangled riser. If the riser pipe deteriorates further, the flow could become unchecked resulting in a release volume an order of magnitude higher than previously thought.”

For the moment, officials are describing the memo’s conclusion as a worst-case scenario, not a forecast …snip…

I think the words, the following is not public, blows the smarmy fiction [lie] that this is possible projection. The words would be different…

They’re absoluteley flat footed …practically and politically…
Politically, As near as I can figure, Axelrod was the first to start backpedaling from more drilling…But their mixed message M.O. – (half calculus, the other half plain ole lazy bum dumbfuckery IMO) –
really has them nose deep in this bubblin crude now.
Well Buttered Fuckin Rumpcakes, Brownie.

And wait til THIS analogy comes into play…

“”Imagine if the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were almost two miles high when they collapsed. Full of petroleum. That’s what we’re talking here on this rig. All that way down….down….””

And then of course the GOP operatives.

My Pet Goat? Psshaw. The OBAMA Administration took a WEEK to respond to this DISASTER and THEN tried to COVER IT UP.

And shoot me if you can find me for saying it, but the guy is only a year before pitching a very no lube pun, ~er run~ at re-election.
Welp. Good fuckin luck in Florida, fellas,
The Tar and Feather by then…

yeah .. but headlines… I see them too. We’ll see what sticks… if the link I put up to a long time environmental investigative reporter (up thread to an al.com piece, following a link to a NYT piece that did link back, but underplayed what it says) is at all right, the Gulf oil “leak” is going to blow beyond all fears.

If you want or need a laugh, scare up a vid of Ob at the Height funeral… NOT giving the eulogy but tearing up, seated in the front pew. He is overt, worked very hard to be seen…. it is awful. The laugh and the scream is Mama Michelle tossing him a very cold and extended look as he does it. She did not buy it, by my take.

… Well, now, at this well, its coming out at fairly high velocity,” Gouget continued. “Any erosive grains are abrading the inside of the pipe and all the steel that comes in contact with the liquid. It’s essentially sanding away the pipe.”

Gouget said the loss of a wellhead is totally unprecedented.

“How bad it could get from that, you will have a tremendous volume of oil that is going to be offgassing on the coast. Depending on how much wind is there, and how those gases build up, that’s a significant health concern,” he said.

The formation that was being drilled by Deepwater Horizon when it exploded and sank last week is reported to have tens of millions of barrels of oil. A barrel contains 42 gallons.

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I saw some of the photes of Ob at the Height funeral.
Very close, I’m sure. :wink:
Going back to Rosa and Martin and Jesse and Thurgood .
At various times post conception, he handled the zygote, fetal, neonate, and later on – the bodysurfing phases of the movement. :lol:

LA Times says the crude is much heavier (and hard to clean up) than BP wanted people to think. I did laugh (or cry) when Suttles of BP tried to say it was like hair filament.

I think they are not in the oil biz, they are in the piles of excremental explosion business.

I ESPECIALLY loved the CG Rear Admiral, not Landry another one also female, down in LA with the hideous creeps from DC, who called BP, “our partner” and had to stop and back up. Slowly… but! the damage was done.

[T]he analysis is based on only a single sample, “but it has caused my level of apprehension to go way up,” said environmental scientist Edward B. Overton of Louisiana State University, who is analyzing the oil for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. So far, he appears to be the only researcher who thinks there may be a bigger-than-expected problem with the oil.

“This could be a fluke sample,” he conceded, and researchers are “desperately” trying to get more samples — a project that is not as simple as it might sound. “We’re hoping and praying that it is Louisiana sweet crude, but if it is not…this is going to be a very unique spill. We have never seen a spill with this high an asphaltenic content.”

Asphaltenes are the heaviest components of some crudes. They don’t burn, they are not attacked by bacteria in the environment, and they don’t evaporate. Their resistance to such degradation is what makes them useful in constructing roads that can survive weathering for long periods. But it also makes cleanup exceptionally difficult.

Asphaltenes are “a fairly sticky and gooey material that can be bad news for larger animals,” said earth scientist David Valentine of UC Santa Barbara. “Asphaltene oils seem to aggregate and don’t form slicks like light crude,” he said. The oil seepage off the coast of California is a good example of high-asphaltene-content oils, and its behavior — condensing into little balls when it rises to the surface of the ocean — is typical of such materials.

The gulf slick, “from what I have seen, seems consistent with it being a light crude oil,” he added. But he has not analyzed samples, and apparently no one besides Overton has either. Or at least, Overton said, no one seems to have examined the oil’s asphaltene content.

…snip…

The sample analyzed by Overton was collected by a skimmer that was sent out to collect oil from the ocean surface. “My only caveat is I don’t know the history of the skimmer. Was it empty when it went out,” or might it have already had some high-asphaltene material on board? “It’s not supposed to, but things like this happen in a spill,” Overton said.

“Everyone’s response is, ‘Let’s get some more samples,'” he said, “but the logistics are difficult. The spill is 50 miles out, which doesn’t sound like much, but in a motorcraft, that’s six to seven hours out and the same to get back. There’s no way to land a plane out there. It is way too rough.”

Overton hoped to have more samples analyzed by Sunday. Until then, all he could suggest was, “Stay tuned.”

Time to go put a chick breast, or two, in the oven. (I am totally off any reasonable schedule, gah)

Reading the LAT more closely I understand why someone interviewed on Lehrer began to almost babble about “the deer” in the SE of LA and in the areas adjacent to fisheries and wetlands… . the heavy oil of asphaltenes, how hard it is to clean up, is hard on the “larger animals”.

Maher: Oil companies are worse than banks. They’re also too big to fail. And their cost to society is also, just like the banks, too great for society to sustain it.

I started to talk about this with John over there. The International Center for Technology Assessment did a study of the hidden cost on a gallon of gasoline. And this was years ago, when gas was about a dollar a gallon. And because of things like defense of the Middle East, regulatory oversight, pollution cleanup, oil industry tax subsidies, it was about $15 a gallon. I don’t think people realize that. So ‘tax, baby, tax’ maybe is what we should do with the oil companies.

he slammed Teddy too, for the windfarm… and for Chappaquidick too. vids at the link…

reminds me of back in a Pittsburgh, PA, burb, when a neighborhood Belgian Shepard targeted my dead brother’s house I moved into, trying to keep it in the family…and I was required to give my SS number to complain, when one of the potential suspects, was a cop illegally working in a district he didn’t reside in, whose dog, put a gash in a young boys arm….

So.

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from Howl

I'm with you in Rockland
where we wake up electrified out of the coma
by our own souls' airplanes roaring over the
roof they've come to drop angelic bombs the
hospital illuminates itself imaginary walls collapse
O skinny legions run outside O starry
spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is
here O victory forget your underwear we're free
I'm with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-
journey on the highway across America in tears
to the door of my cottage in the Western night

October 7 1955

"a remarkable collection of angelson one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure

Democrats…

Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.